On the oriented Thompson subgroup \vec{F}_3 and its relatives in higher Brown-Thompson groups

DOI10.1142/S0219498822501390MaRDI QIDQ6330838arXivFDO

Authors Valeriano Aiello, Tatiana Nagnibeda

Publication date 10 December 2019

Published in arXiv

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1142/S0219498822501390

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Maximal subgroups (20E28) Geometric group theory (20F65) Unitary representations of locally compact groups (22D10)

arXiv classification

math.GR

Abstract: A few years ago the so-called oriented subgroup $vecF$ of the Thompson group $F$ was introduced by V. Jones while investigating the connections between subfactors and conformal field theories. In the coding of links and knots by elements of $F$ it corresponds exactly to the oriented ones. Thanks to the work of Golan and Sapir, $vecF$ provided the first example of a maximal subgroup of infinite index in $F$ different from the parabolic subgroups that fix a point in $(0,1)$. In this paper we investigate possible analogues of $vecF$ in higher Thompson groups $F_k,kgeq2$, with $F=F_2$, introduced by Brown. Most notably, we study algebraic properties of the oriented subgroup $vec{F}_3$ of $F_3$, as described recently by Jones, and prove in particular that it gives rise to a non-parabolic maximal subgroup of infinite index in $F_3$ and that the corresponding quasi-regular representation is irreducible.

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